Third World Countries

WATCH 'Moneyball' Author Discusses Film Adaptation On Daily Show: 'I Thought It Was Gonna Suck'

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Iceland Financial Crisis, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Third World Travel, The Daily Show, John Stewart, Video, Books News

Last night on The Daily Show, Michael Lewis spoke with Jon Stewart about his newest book, "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World." His journalisti...

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Making A Difference: Voluntour and Do-Good Vacationns

Lisa M. Dietlin | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Summer-Vacations, Volunteering, Charity, Voluntouring, Giving Back, Volunteer Vacations, Europe, Making a Difference, Impact News
Lisa M. Dietlin

Consider adding a voluntour or do-good component to your next vacation! You just be might surprised at how vacationing can lead to making a difference! Are you M.A.D. today?

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What Technology Brings to the Developing World

Ben Cole | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Google, Developing World, Post College Life, Microfinance, TED Conference, It, Africa, TED Conference 2011, Technology News
Ben Cole

I would argue that the greatest benefit of technology to this part of the world is not just its ability to solve problems. Rather, technology brings something more, something transcendent: Technology brings empowerment.

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Crime and Safety: Another Reason Why Americans Need to Travel Abroad

Lauren Quinn | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Travel Safety, Oakland Crime, Third-World Countries, Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Travel Abroad, Travel Alerts, Travel Advisory, Cheap Travel Abroad, Travel News
Lauren Quinn

There I was, in the capital of a poor country still bearing the wounds of civil war, filled with gypsies and beggars and busted-up sidewalks, and I was safer than in my American hometown.

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The Day After Tomorrow: If You Want to Grow, Learn

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Policy, Innovation, Development, Economy, Economic Development, Third World Countries, International Development, Third World Development, World News
Otaviano Canuto

Some countries are less developed than others due to the inability to acquire and adapt better technologies to raise productivity. Yet the potential for technological learning is huge and four global trends have begun to unlock it.

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Dispatch From Uganda: What Africa Needs Now

John Hope Bryant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant, Africa, Operation Hope, Uganda, Hope Global Initiatives, Third World Countries, Small Business, African Entrepreneurs, World News
John Hope Bryant

What Africa needs now is a hand up, and not simply a hand out.

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Nigeria at 50 and Nigeria in 2050

Margee Ensign | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nigeria, African Universities, Third World Countries, Nigerian University, Africa, American University Nigeria, College News
Margee Ensign

Nigeria is a developing country with high rates of poverty, inadequate infrastructure and high levels of child and maternal mortality. It is also beginning to realize its promise, especially by those with a university education

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U.S. Income Inequality Has SURPASSED Guyana And Nicaragua

Slate Magazine | Timothy Noah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Income Gap, Britain, Wall Street, Income Inequality, Third World America, Germany, France, The Great Divergence, Federal Reserve, U.S. Income, Executive Compensation, Income, Business News

In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the ...

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Bookwallah Gives Books to the Orphans of the World

James M. Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Charity, Libraries, Books, Orphans, G. Riley Mills, Corporate Giving, Not for Profits, Nonprofits, Bookwallah, Impact News
James M. Lynch

Bookwallah's sole mission is to collect and distribute children's storybooks, set up libraries, and spread the joy of reading to children of orphanages and children's homes throughout the world.

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Not All Jobs Are Created Equal: Why Wall Street's Gain Has Been America's Loss

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Third World Countries, US Unemployment, Manufacturing Job Losses, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Recession, American Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Business News
Arianna Huffington

It's time to start separating the real economy from the casino economy. And to make sure that with all the talk in Washington about "jobs," we don't let the platitudes become a substitute for urgently needed policies.

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Ecopreneur: Buying Land in Bangladesh

Kristin Boekhoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Hotels, Investing, Resort, Developing Countries, Investment, Bangladesh, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Real Estate, Business News
Kristin Boekhoff

My team and I worked hard for two years to get to this point -- the first land purchase. Buying land in Bangladesh wasn't easy, but just look at my new view!

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Third World Term Should Be Retired, Says World Bank Head

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geopolitics, Third World Term, Third World Countries, Robert Zoellick, Third World, World Bank, World News

WASHINGTON — The head of the World Bank says it is time to stop using the term "Third World" to refer to developing countries and recognize they...

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Arianna Huffington: The Shrinking Middle Class

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Unemployment, Income Inequality, Third World America, Middle Class, Arianna Huffington, Shrinking Middle Class, Video, Business News

In an interview with Yahoo Tech Ticker on Wednesday, Arianna said that a shrinking middle class is causing America to resemble a third world nation. ...

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Genius: a Talk With Edwidge Danticat

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Florida, Author, Third World, Writer, Edwidge Danticat, Haitians, Malcolm Gladwell, Grid, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Third World Countries, MacArthur Genius Award, Edwidge-Dandicat-Memoir, Haitian-American, Aids, World News
Martha St Jean

"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."

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Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development

William Easterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Foreign Aid, Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Third World Countries, Latin America, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, HIV/AIDS Africa, Mosquitoes, World News
William Easterly

Sachs is an inspirational and hard-working intellectual, just one whose ideas on Africa happen to be sometimes totally wrong, and other times only seriously wrong.

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G-20 Global Response: 'Developing World Needs Its Own Stimulus'

Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, London, Global Financial Crisis, Third World Countries, G20 Summit, United Kingdom, President Barack Obama, Developing Countries Poverty, European Union, g20 Leaders, London-United Kingdom, World News

As the G-20 Summit in London wraps up today, bloggers and citizen journalists from around the world are covering the outcomes, ideas and policies pres...

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Brothel Watch

Scott Diel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soviet, Estonia, Brothel, Third World Countries, Prostitution, Women's Rights, Brothels, Tallinn, World News
Scott Diel

Sure, the girls make too much noise, and maybe they do drive down the property value. But if the prostitutes were driven out, they might be replaced with worse. Like a family with teenagers.

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World Bank: the Incredible Shrinking Economy

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Financial Crisis, Robert Zoellick, Global Economy, World Bank, Economy, World News
Jacob Heilbrunn

More and more, the danger of a rerun of the 1930s, in which extremist movements profit from financial depression, looms as a real prospect.

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Timothy Geithner and his Father's Legacy in Microcredit

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grameen, Ford Foundation, Peter Geithner, Nobel, Ann Dunham Soetero, Timothy Geithner, Hillary Clinton, Microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, People's Banks, India, Thailand, Poverty, Zimbabwe, Third World, Third World Countries, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary Nominee, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Global Poverty, Business News
Vivian Norris

Geithner grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand. It would have been impossible for him to not have seen what true poverty is and how his father was helping to establish part of the solution.

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The Hypocrisy of the West

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Poverty, Global Economy, Third World, Brazil, World Bank, Economic Crisis, Capitalism, Nicaragua, Global Economic Crisis, Third World Countries, Economic Stimulus Package, Zimbabwe Hyperinflation, Imf, Global Financial Crisis, World News
Ben Cohen

The Third World exists in a precarious state of neo colonial dependency and cannot follow our path out of economic disaster because we insist they don't.

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Larry Mellon's Inspiring Mid-Life Crisis

Diana Odasso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health, Haiti, The Giving Life, Charitable Gifts, Poverty, Charity, World, Third World, Hopital Albert Schweitzer, Midlife Crisis, Tuberculosis, Infant Malnutrition, Mid-Life Crisis, Third World Countries, HIV/AIDS, Charitable Organizations, Starvation, Aids, Port-Au-Prince, World News
Diana Odasso

As I reflect on my holiday experience last year and in light of this year's economic and moral climate, I marvel on the ability of a few to change the lives of many.

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Bailing Out a Leaky Boat

Judith Blau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Global Economy, Economy, Ukraine, Business News
Judith Blau

As the sub-prime mortgage crisis spread to all financial sectors of the US and quickly to the rest of the world, the media heaped praise on governments for bailing out financial institutions.

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A Triangle of Human Suffering

Mia Farrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Russia, Car Genocide, Darfur Genocide, Chad, United Nations, Central African Republic, Darfur, Third World Countries, Lord's Resistance Army, Car, Genocide, Africa, Lra, China, Joseph Kony, Politics News
Mia Farrow

As long as we are more concerned about protecting the interests of governments and businesses than protecting people from needless suffering and death, tragedies like those in Darfur and Chad will continue.

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My Talk with Fareed Zakaria: Obama Must Face A Post-American World

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fareed Zakaria, Barack Obama, Third World Countries, India, Global Politics, The Post American World, The Developing World, Emerging Powers, China, Politics News
Nathan Gardels

I talked with Zakaria about what Obama faces as president: he will have to deal with China, India, and the developing world as they aspire to catch up with America.

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